Association of cotton leaf curl Multan betasatellite and Ageratum conyzoides symptomless alphasatellite with tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus in Luffa cylindrica in Pakistan - Ifrah Anwar; Hanan Arif Bukhari; Nazia Nahid; Kamran Rashid; Imran Amin; Shabnum Shaheen; Khadim Hussain; Shahid Mansoor (Australasian Plant Pathology, 2020)

Functional Annotation and Analysis of Dual Oxidase 1 (DUOX1): a Potential Anti-pyocyanin Immune Component - Muhammad Ibrahim Rashid; Amjad Ali; Saadia Andleeb (Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, 2019)

Shear Strength Improvement of Lateritic Soil Stabilized by Biopolymer Based Stabilizer - Ahmad Safuan A. Rashid; SeyedAli Tabatabaei; Suksun Horpibulsuk; Nor Zurairahetty Mohd Yunus; Wan Hasmida Wan Hassan (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2019)

Plant invasion alters the physico-chemical dynamics of soil system: insights from invasive Leucanthemum vulgare in the Indian Himalaya - Rameez Ahmad; Anzar A. Khuroo; Maroof Hamid; Irfan Rashid (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2019)

A Soil Moisture Data Assimilation System for Pakistan Using PODEn4DVar and CLM4.5 - Tariq Mahmood; Zhenghui Xie; Binghao Jia; Ammara Habib; Rashid Mahmood (Journal of Meteorological Research, 2019)

Establishing a correlation between RIN and A260/280 along with the multivariate evaluation of factors affecting the quality of RNA in cryopreserved cancer bio-specimen - Sanket G. Shah; Mudasir Rashid; Tripti Verma; Madan Ludbe; Bharat Khade; Poonam B. Gera; Sanjay Gupta (Cell and Tissue Banking, 2019)

Factors affecting the technical efficiency of turmeric farmers in the slash and burn areas of Bangladesh - Mst. Esmat Ara Begum; M. A. Monayem Miah; M. A. Rashid; Mohammad Ismail Hossain (Agroforestry Systems, 2019)

The biology of Goldsilk Sea Bream (family: Sparidae) from the inshore waters of north coast Kenya - Rashid O. Anam; Cosmas N. Munga; James R. Gonda (Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science, 2019)
The biology of the sparid, Acanthopagrus berda (goldsilk sea bream) was investigated using catch samples obtained from artisanal fishers at selected fish landing sites in the Marereni and Ngomeni fishing areas on the north coast of Kenya. This species has not previously been studied in Kenya although it forms significant proportions of artisanal fish landings and is also a promising aquaculture species. In order to contribute to knowledge of this species, the length-weight relationship, condition factor and feeding preference for prey items were studied in a total of 751 specimens sampled from July 2013 to July 2014. Length-weight relationships for male and female individuals from both fishing areas were strongly correlated (Males: Marereni - R2 = 0.920, Ngomeni - R2 = 0.983; Females: Marereni - R2 = 0.966, Ngomeni - R2 = 0.941). The condition factor of mixed sexes was not significantly different between the two fishing areas (Marereni 2.15 ± 0.08; Ngomeni 2.05 ± 0.02) at p > 0.05. Gut content analysis recorded a total of 5 taxa in the diet (gastropods, molluscs, detritus, crustaceans and fish). The overall sample was dominated by female individuals with an overall sex ratio of females (405 individuals) to males (338 individuals) of 1:0.8 being significantly different at p

Comparative study of the genetic basis of nitrogen use efficiency in wild and cultivated barley - Jawad Munawar Shah; Sidra tul Muntaha; Essa Ali; Azhar Abbas Khan; Syed Hassan Raza Zaidi; Ahmad Naeem Shahzad; Zeshan Hassan; Ahmad Nawaz; Muhammad Rashid; Syed Asad Hussain Bukhari (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2019)

Survey and conventional management methods of bacterial wilt disease in open fields and greenhouses in Tanzania - Agatha Aloyce; Patrick Alois Ndakidemi; Ernest Rashid Mbega (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2019)

Moderating role of financial development in environmental Kuznets: a case study of Malaysia - Abid Rashid Gill; Sallahuddin Hassan; Muhammad Haseeb (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

A highly stable manganese catalase from Geobacillus thermopakistaniensis: molecular cloning and characterization - Abeera Shaeer; Mehwish Aslam; Naeem Rashid (Extremophiles, 2019)

Experimental and Computational Investigation of the IDDSI Flow Test of Liquids Used in Dysphagia Management - Ben Hanson; Rashid Jamshidi; Andrew Redfearn; Ryan Begley; Catriona M. Steele (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2019)

Pros and cons of using wavelets in conjunction with genetic programming and generalised linear models in statistical downscaling of precipitation - D. A. Sachindra; K. Ahmed; Md. Mamunur Rashid; V. Sehgal; S. Shahid; B. J. C. Perera (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2019)

Higher Reliance on Glycolysis Limits Glycolytic Responsiveness in Degenerating Glaucomatous Optic Nerve - Assraa Hassan Jassim; Lucy Coughlin; Mohammad Harun-Or-Rashid; Patrick T. Kang; Yeong-Renn Chen; Denise M. Inman (Molecular Neurobiology, 2019)

Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of matrine derivatives possessing piperazine moiety as antitumor agents - Yiming Xu; Pengyun Liang; Haroon ur Rashid; Lichuan Wu; Peng Xie; Haodong Wang; Shuyan Zhang; Lisheng Wang; Jun Jiang (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2019)

Promoting sustainability of use of biomass as energy resource: Pakistan’s perspective - Abdul Waheed Bhutto; Aqeel Ahmed Bazmi; Sadia Karim; Rashid Abro; Shaukat Ali Mazari; Sabzoi Nizamuddin (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Socio-economic and environmental factors influenced pro-poor growth process: new development triangle - Haroon Ur Rashid Khan; Khalid Zaman; Sheikh Usman Yousaf; Alaa Mohamd Shoukry; Showkat Gani; Mohamed A. Sharkawy (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Analysis of service quality of household toilets expected by households practicing open defecation: a study in rural settlements of Bihar, India - Mohammad Rashid; Debapratim Pandit (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2019)

ENSO influence on summer temperature over Arabian Peninsula: role of mid-latitude circulation - Mansour Almazroui; Irfan Ur Rashid; Sajjad Saeed; M. Nazrul Islam (Climate Dynamics, 2019)

Socio-political and ecological stresses on traditional pastoral systems: A review - Khurshid Muhammad; Nafees Mohammad; Khan Abdullah; Somuncu Mehmet; Ahmad Khan Ashfaq; Rashid Wajid (Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2019)

Correction to: Factors affecting reproductive performance in dromedary camel herds in Saudi Arabia - Ahmed Ali; Derar Derar; Abdulhadi Alsharari; Assaf Alsharari; Rashid Khalil; Tariq I. Almundarij; Yaser Alboti; Fahd Al-Sobayil (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2019)

Exogenously applied proline induced changes in key anatomical features and physio-biochemical attributes in water stressed oat (Avena sativa L.) plants - Rehmana Ghafoor; Nudrat Aisha Akram; Muhammad Rashid; Muhammad Ashraf; Muhammad Iqbal; Zhang Lixin (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2019)

Efficient microalgae removal from aqueous medium through auto-flocculation: investigating growth-dependent role of organic matter - Naim Rashid; Manoranjan Nayak; William I. Suh; Bongsoo Lee; Yong-Keun Chang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Environmental impact and economic sustainability analysis of a novel anaerobic digestion waste-to-energy pilot plant in Pakistan - Rizwan Rasheed; Abdullah Yasar; Yubo Wang; Amtul Bari Tabinda; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Fizza Tahir; Yuehong Su (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Evaluation of spatio‐temporal rainfall variability and performance of a stochastic rainfall model in Bangladesh - AFM Kamal Chowdhury; Kanak Kanti Kar; Shamsuddin Shahid; Rezaul Chowdhury; Md. Mamunur Rashid (International Journal of Climatology, 2019)
Rainfall in Bangladesh exhibits persistent wet and dry anomalies associated with occurrence of floods and droughts. Assessing inter‐annual variability of rainfall is vital to account these hydrological extremes in the design and operations of water systems. However, the inter‐annual variability obtained from short record rainfall data might be misleading as it does not contain whole climate variability which signifies the utmost importance of stochastic rainfall models. Since the inter‐annual variability and stochastic models have not been explored adequately for rainfall in Bangladesh, this study evaluated (a) the spatio‐temporal variability of rainfall focusing on inter‐annual variability, and (b) applicability of a stochastic daily rainfall model, referred as the Decadal and Hierarchical Markov Chain (DHMC) model. Daily rainfall data of 1973–2012 for 18 stations across Bangladesh were used to investigate the probability distributions and autocorrelations of rainfall, and the model performances. Results show a higher magnitude of inter‐annual variabilities of rainfall depth (standard deviation 80–250 mm) and wet spells (standard deviation 4–6 days) in wetter months (June to September) across rainfall stations in the east region of the country. In contrast, higher rates of inter‐annual variabilities (i.e., coefficients of variations) were observed in drier months across the west region. Spatially, the dry spells were observed consistent across the country. Monthly rainfall showed decreasing trend over the region from west to the middle part of the country, whereas monthly number of wet days showed increasing trend over the eastern part. The DHMC was found to preserve the observed variabilities of rainfall at daily to multiyear resolutions at all stations, except a tendency to underestimate the autocorrelation of monthly rainfall depth. Despite this limitation, DHMC can be considered as a suitable stochastic rainfall simulator for a tropical monsoon climate like Bangladesh.

Simulation of streamflow with statistically downscaled daily rainfall using a hybrid of wavelet and GAMLSS models - Md. Mamunur Rashid; Simon Beecham (Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2019)

Assessment of present and future climate change over Kashmir Himalayas, India - Mifta ul Shafiq; Shazia Ramzan; Pervez Ahmed; Rashid Mahmood; A. P. Dimri (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2019)

Characterization of recombinant endo-1,4-β-xylanase of Bacillus halodurans C-125 and rational identification of hot spot amino acid residues responsible for enhancing thermostability by an in-silico approach - Malik Siddique Mahmood; Faiz Rasul; Mahjabeen Saleem; Amber Afroz; Muhammad Faheem Malik; Naeem Mehmood Ashraf; Umar Rashid; Shumaila Naz; Nadia Zeeshan (Molecular Biology Reports, 2019)

NeuroMuscleDB: a Database of Genes Associated with Muscle Development, Neuromuscular Diseases, Ageing, and Neurodegeneration - Mohammad Hassan Baig; Iliyas Rashid; Prachi Srivastava; Khurshid Ahmad; Arif Tasleem Jan; Gulam Rabbani; Dukhwan Choi; George E. Barreto; Ghulam Md Ashraf; Eun Ju Lee; Inho Choi (Molecular Neurobiology, 2019)

Assessment of nematodes in Punjab Urial (Ovis vignei punjabiensis) population in Kalabagh Game Reserve: development of a DNA barcode approach - Amna Arshad Bajwa; Jordan Patrick Cuff; Muhammad Imran; Saher Islam; Riffat Mansha; Kamran Ashraf; Arman Khan; Muhammad Imran Rashid; Muhammad Yasir Zahoor; Waseem Ahmad Khan; Habib Ur Rehman; Asif Nadeem; et al. (European Journal of Wildlife Research, 2019)

The effects of lower body passive heating combined with mixed-method cooling during half-time on second-half intermittent sprint performance in the heat - Jacky Soo; Gabriel Tang; Saravana Pillai Arjunan; Joel Pang; Abdul Rashid Aziz; Mohammed Ihsan (European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2019)

The ergogenic potency of carbohydrate mouth rinse on endurance running performance of dehydrated athletes - Harris Kamal Kamaruddin; Cheong Hwa Ooi; Toby Mündel; Abdul Rashid Aziz; Ahmad Munir Che Muhamed (European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2019)

Renewable and non-renewable energy use and its relationship with economic growth in Myanmar - Shakoor Ahmed; Khorshed Alam; Kazi Sohag; Jeff Gow; Afzalur Rashid; Mohsina Akter (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Population genetic evidence for a unique resource of Nile tilapia in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa - Asilatu Shechonge; Benjamin P. Ngatunga; Rashid Tamatamah; Stephanie J. Bradbeer; Emmanuel Sweke; Alan Smith; George F. Turner; Martin J. Genner (Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2019)

High-resolution earth observation data for assessing the impact of land system changes on wetland health in Kashmir Himalaya, India - Irfan Rashid; Sheikh Aneaus (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2019)

Recombinant Tk0522, a carbohydrate esterase homologue from Thermococcus kodakarensis, does not require a signal sequence for translocation to periplasmic space in Escherichia coli - Anam Tariq; Alina Gul; Majida A. Muhammad; Naeem Rashid; Masood A Siddiqui (Biologia, 2019)

Investigating effect of proton-exchange membrane on new air-cathode single-chamber microbial fuel cell configuration for bioenergy recovery from Azorubine dye degradation - Seyedeh Nazanin Kardi; Norahim Ibrahim; Noor Aini Abdul Rashid; Ghasem Najafpour Darzi (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Predicting invasion potential and niche dynamics of Parthenium hysterophorus (Congress grass) in India under projected climate change - Rameez Ahmad; Anzar A. Khuroo; Maroof Hamid; Bipin Charles; Irfan Rashid (Biodiversity and Conservation, 2019)

Effects of Management on the Profitability of Seasonal Fisheries - Abdulrahman Ben-Hasan; Carl Walters; U. Rashid Sumaila (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019)

A volatile producing endophytic Bacillus siamensis YC7012 promotes root development independent on auxin or ethylene/jasmonic acid pathway - Mohammad Tofajjal Hossain; Ajmal Khan; Md. Harun-Or-Rashid; Young Ryun Chung (Plant and Soil, 2019)

Appraisal of Urban Heat Island Detection of Peshawar Using Land Surface Temperature and Its Impacts on Environment - Rashid Mehmood; Muhammad Atif Butt (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2019)

Counting the beans: quantifying the adoption of improved mungbean varieties in South Asia and Myanmar - Pepijn Schreinemachers; Teresa Sequeros; Saima Rani; Md. Abdur Rashid; Nithya Vishwanath Gowdru; Muhammad Shahrukh Rahman; Mohammed Razu Ahmed; Ramakrishnan Madhavan Nair (Food Security, 2019)

Adaptation of hard gelatin capsules for oral delivery of aqueous radiopharmaceuticals - Samia Mohamed Omar; Rania Safaa Abdel-Rashid; Mohamed Kamal AlAssaly; Tamer M. Sakr (DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2019)

Current Status and Future Challenges of Weather Radar Polarimetry: Bridging the Gap between Radar Meteorology/Hydrology/Engineering and Numerical Weather Prediction - Guifu Zhang; Vivek N. Mahale; Bryan J. Putnam; Youcun Qi; Qing Cao; Andrew D. Byrd; Petar Bukovcic; Dusan S. Zrnic; Jidong Gao; Ming Xue; Youngsun Jung; Heather D. Reeves; et al. (Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2019)

Role of salicylic acid and hydrogen sulfide in promoting lead stress tolerance and regulating free amino acid composition in Zea mays L. - Roya Zanganeh; Rashid Jamei; Fatemeh Rahmani (Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2019)

Taxonomic significance of leaf epidermis in tribe Trifolieae L. (Leguminosae; Papilionoideae) in Pakistan - Neelam Rashid; Muhammad Zafar; Mushtaq Ahmad; Mir Ajab Khan; Khafsa Malik; Shazia Sultana; Syed Nasar Shah (Plant Biosystems, 2019)

Reporting effective extraction methodology and chemical characterization of bioactive components of under explored Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco from semi-arid climate - Rafia Rehman; Muhammad Asif Hanif; Muhammad Zahid; Rashid Waseem Khan Qadri (Natural Product Research, 2019)

Different ambient management intervention techniques and their effect on milk production and physiological parameters of lactating NiliRavi buffaloes during hot dry summer of subtropical region - Mehtab Ahmad; Jalees Ahmed Bhatti; Muhammad Abdullah; Rahman Ullah; Qurat ul Ain; Muhammad Sajid Hasni; Mahboob Ali; Abdul Rashid; Imran Qaisar; Ghazunfar Rashid; Rafi Uddin (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2019)

Epidemiological assessment of clinical poultry cases through the government veterinary hospital-based passive surveillance system in Bangladesh: a case study - Md. Ashiqur Rahman; Md. Mahbubur Rahman; Md. Sadeque Abdullah; Md. Abu Sayeed; Md. Harun Rashid; Rashed Mahmud; Joseph P. Belgrad; Md. Ahasanul Hoque (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2019)

Spatial and seasonal distribution of intertidal macrobenthos with their biomass and functional feeding guilds in the Naf River estuary, Bangladesh - Md. Abu Noman; Rashid Mamunur; M. Shahanul Islam; M. Belal Hossain (Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2019)

Pcal_0970: an extremely thermostable l-asparaginase from Pyrobaculum calidifontis with no detectable glutaminase activity - Shahid Mahmood Chohan; Naeem Rashid; Muhammad Sajed; Tadayuki Imanaka (Folia Microbiologica, 2019)

Fishery subsidies: the interaction between science and policy - Yutaro Sakai; Nobuyuki Yagi; Ussif Rashid Sumaila (Fisheries Science, 2019)

Virulence profiles of vancomycin-resistant enterococci isolated from surface and ground water utilized by humans in the North West Province, South Africa: a public health perspective - Daniel Pheeha Matlou; Marie Ebob AgborTabot Bissong; Christ-Donald Kaptchouang Tchatchouang; Mohomud Rashid Adem; Frank Eric Tatsing Foka; Ajay Kumar; Collins Njie Ateba (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Treating waste with waste: the potential of synthesized alum from bauxite waste for treating car wash wastewater for reuse - Isaac Monney; Richard Buamah; Emmanuel Amponsah Donkor; Rashid Etuaful; Hugo Kim Nota; Hilco Ijzer (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Evaluating the Performance of Remotely Sensed Precipitation Estimates against In-Situ Observations during the September 2014 Mega-Flood in the Kashmir Valley - Irfan Rashid; Ajaz Ahmad Parray; Shakil Ahmad Romshoo (Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 2019)

Impacts of the Changing Ocean-Sea Ice System on the Key Forage Fish Arctic Cod (Boreogadus Saida) and Subsistence Fisheries in the Western Canadian Arctic—Evaluating Linked Climate, Ecosystem and Economic (CEE) Models - Nadja S. Steiner; William W. L. Cheung; Andres M. Cisneros-Montemayor; Helen Drost; Hakase Hayashida; Carie Hoover; Jen Lam; Tessa Sou; U. Rashid Sumaila; Paul Suprenand; Travis C. Tai; David L. VanderZwaag (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019)

Isolation and characterization of hypoxia inducible gene connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) in Labeo rohita - Iliyas Rashid; Vishwamitra Singh Baisvar; Mahender Singh; Prachi Srivastava; Ravindra Kumar; Basdeo Kushwaha; Ajey Kumar Pathak (Molecular Biology Reports, 2019)

Severe infantile epileptic encephalopathy associated with D-glyceric aciduria: report of a novel case and review - Yoav Zehavi; Hanna Mandel; Ayelet Eran; Sarit Ravid; Muhammad Abu Rashid; Erwin E. W. Jansen; Mirjam M. C. Wamelink; Ann Saada; Avraham Shaag; Orly Elpeleg; Ronen Spiegel (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2019)

Anoxia and fluctuating climate recorded from the Devonian–Carboniferous black shales, Tethys Himalaya, India: a multi-proxy approach - Javid A. Ganai; Shaik A. Rashid (International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2019)

Correction to: Widespread colonisation of Tanzanian catchments by introduced Oreochromis tilapia fishes: the legacy from decades of deliberate introduction - Asilatu Shechonge; Benjamin P. Ngatunga; Stephanie J. Bradbeer; Julia J. Day; Jennifer J. Freer; Antonia G. P. Ford; Jonathan Kihedu; Tabitha Richmond; Semvua Mzighani; Alan M. Smith; Emmanuel A. Sweke; Rashid Tamatamah; et al. (Hydrobiologia, 2019)

Widespread colonisation of Tanzanian catchments by introduced Oreochromis tilapia fishes: the legacy from decades of deliberate introduction - Asilatu Shechonge; Benjamin P. Ngatunga; Stephanie J. Bradbeer; Julia J. Day; Jennifer J. Freer; Antonia G. P. Ford; Jonathan Kihedu; Tabitha Richmond; Semvua Mzighani; Alan M. Smith; Emmanuel A. Sweke; Rashid Tamatamah; et al. (Hydrobiologia, 2019)

Limited hybridization between introduced and Critically Endangered indigenous tilapia fishes in northern Tanzania - Stephanie J. Bradbeer; Jack Harrington; Henry Watson; Abrahim Warraich; Asilatu Shechonge; Alan Smith; Rashid Tamatamah; Benjamin P. Ngatunga; George F. Turner; Martin J. Genner (Hydrobiologia, 2019)

Assessment of flood-induced changes in soil heavy metal and nutrient status in Rajanpur, Pakistan - Farhan Hafeez; Noman Zafar; Rashid Nazir; Hafiz Muhammad Rashad Javeed; Muhammad Rizwan; Faridullah; Saeed Ahmad Asad; Akhtar Iqbal (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2019)

Clinical Importance of Estrogen Receptor 1 (ESR1) Gene Polymorphisms and Their Expression Patterns in Coronary Artery Disease Patients: A Study from India - Mamta P. Sumi; Sameer Ahmad Guru; Rashid Mir; Mirza Masroor; Musadiq A. Bhat; M. P. Girish; Alpana Saxena (Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry, 2019)

Geochemical attributes of late Neoproterozoic Salt Range Formation, Pakistan: constraints on provenance, paleoclimate, depositional and tectonic settings - Muhammad Ahmed Farooqui; Muhammad Umar; Muhammad Amjad Sabir; Rashid Pervez; Tarib Jalees (Geosciences Journal, 2019)

Floristic diversity along the roadsides of an urban biodiversity hotspot in Indian Himalayas - Insha Muzafar; Anzar A. Khuroo; Gousia Mehraj; Maroof Hamid; Irfan Rashid; Akhtar H. Malik (Plant Biosystems, 2019)

Anthropogenic disturbances alter community structure in the forests of Kashmir Himalaya - Shiekh Marifatul Haq; Irfan Rashid; Anzar A. Khuroo; Zubair A. Malik; Akhtar H. Malik (Tropical Ecology, 2019)

A Preliminary Study in Search of Potential Peptide Candidates for a Combinational Therapy with Cancer Chemotherapy Drug - Hussin A. Rothan; Jamunaa Ambikabothy; Thamil Selvee Ramasamy; Nurshamimi Nor Rashid; Rohana Yusof (International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, 2019)

A Carding System as an Approach to Increasing the Economic Risk of Engaging in IUU Fishing? - U. Rashid Sumaila (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019)

Molecular identification of fungal pathogens associated with date palm root diseases in the United Arab Emirates - Mohammed S. Al-Hammadi; Rashid Al-Shariqi; Sajeewa S. N. Maharachchikumbura; Abdullah M. Al-Sadi (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2019)

Evaluation of seminal plasma composition and spermatozoa quality parameters of silver barb, Barbonymus gonionotus Bleeker, 1850 - Ibrahim Rashid; Md Shakhawate Hossain; Mohammad Abdus Salam; S. M. Rafiquzzaman (Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 2019)

Heavy metal contamination in two commercial fish species of a trans-Himalayan freshwater ecosystem - Mohammad Aneesul Mehmood; Humaira Qadri; Rouf Ahmad Bhat; Asmat Rashid; Sartaj Ahmad Ganie; Gowhar Hamid Dar; Shafiq-ur-Rehman (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2019)

Environmental and socioeconomic factors induced blood lead in children: an investigation from Kashmir, India - Asmat Rashid; Rouf Ahmad Bhat; Humaira Qadri; Mohammad Aneesul Mehmood; Shafiq-ur-Rehman (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2019)

Response of soil microbial biomass and enzymatic activity to biochar amendment in the organic carbon deficient arid soil: a 2-year field study - Muhammad Irfan; Qaiser Hussain; Khalid Saifullah Khan; Muhammad Akmal; Shahzada Sohail Ijaz; Rifat Hayat; Azeem Khalid; Muhammad Azeem; Muhammad Rashid (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2019)

Functional and therapeutic potential of inulin: A comprehensive review - Waqas Ahmed; Summer Rashid (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2019)

Pneumatic jig: effect of airflow, time and pulse rates on solid particle separation - M. A. A. Aziz; K. Md. Isa; N. J. Miles; R. A. Rashid (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2019)

Assessment of genetic diversity in round gourd (Praecitrullus fistulosus) germplasm of Pakistan considering morphological characters - Adeel Shahid; Chaudhary Muhammad Ayyub; Mazhar Abbas; Rashid Ahmad (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2019)

Preparation and characterization of green polylactic acid (PLA) membranes for organic/organic separation by pervaporation - Francesco Galiano; Abdulsattar H. Ghanim; Khalid T. Rashid; Tiziana Marino; Silvia Simone; Qusay F. Alsalhy; Alberto Figoli (Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2019)

Genetic analysis of roots and shoots in rice seedling by association mapping - Yan Zhao; Cong-hui Jiang; Rashid Muhammad Abdul Rehman; Hong-liang Zhang; Jinjie Li; Zi-chao Li (Genes & Genomics, 2019)

Extremely stable indole-3-glycerol-phosphate synthase from hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus - Muhammad Arif; Naeem Rashid; Sumera Perveen; Qamar Bashir; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2019)

177Lu-DOTA-coupled minigastrin peptides: promising theranostic agents in neuroendocrine cancers - Syed Faheem Askari Rizvi; Syed Ali Raza Naqvi; Samina Roohi; Tauqir A. Sherazi; Rashid Rasheed (Molecular Biology Reports, 2018)

Combustion performance of rubber seed methyl ester using aromatic and phenolic antioxidants in a multi-cylinder diesel engine - Ibrahim Khalil Adam; M. R. Heikal; A. Rashid A. Aziz; A. R. Othman; Suzana Yusup (Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2018)

Mosaicism diminishes the value of pre-implantation embryo biopsies for detecting CRISPR/Cas9 induced mutations in sheep - Marcela Vilarino; Fabian Patrik Suchy; Sheikh Tamir Rashid; Helen Lindsay; Juan Reyes; Bret Roberts McNabb; Talitha van der Meulen; Mark O. Huising; Hiromitsu Nakauchi; Pablo Juan Ross (Transgenic Research, 2018)

CO2 foam for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications using low adsorption surfactant structure - Muhammad Sagir; Muhammad Mushtaq; Muhammad Bilal Tahir; Muhammad Suleman Tahir; Sami Ullah; Khurum Shahzad; Umer Rashid (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2018)

Acute effects of methadone on EEG power spectrum and event-related potentials among heroin dependents - Farid Motlagh; Fatimah Ibrahim; Rusdi Rashid; Niusha Shafiabady; Tahereh Seghatoleslam; Hussain Habil (Psychopharmacology, 2018)

Molecular and phenotypic identification of B-genome introgression linked to Leptosphaeria maculans resistant gene Rlm6 in Brassica napus × B. juncea interspecific hybrids - M. Harunur Rashid; Georg Hausner; W. G. Dilantha Fernando (Euphytica, 2018)

Appraisal of the groundwater balance components from multi-remote sensing datasets in a semi-arid region - Mehnaz Rashid; Shakeel Ahmed (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2018)

Erosion potential assessment of watersheds through GIS-based hypsometric analysis: a case study of Kurram Tangi Dam - Wasif Yousaf; Syed Ghulam Mohayud-Din-Hashmi; Usman Akram; Urooj Saeed; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Muhammad Umar; Ambreena Mubashir (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2018)

Effect of particle size distribution of cohesionless soils on the ultimate carrying capacity of open ended pipe piles under different saturation conditions - Mahmood Rashid Mahmood; Samer Jihad Abdullah Qadir (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2018)

Molecular epidemiology of bovine anaplasmosis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan - Shahid Hussain Farooqi; Muhammad Ijaz; Muhammad Imran Rashid; H. Nabi; S. Islam; Amjad Islam Aqib; Kashif Hussain; Amjad Khan; Syeda Nayab Batool Rizvi; Shakeel Mahmood; Khalid Mehmood; Hui Zhang (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2018)

Evaluation of CMIP5 models for projection of future precipitation change in Bornean tropical rainforests - Mubasher Hussain; Khamaruzaman Wan Yusof; Muhammad Raza Ul Mustafa; Rashid Mahmood; Shaofeng Jia (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2018)

Accuracy of an internet-based speech-in-noise hearing screening test for high-frequency hearing loss: incorporating automatic conditional rescreening - Marya Sheikh Rashid; Wouter A. Dreschler (International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2018)

Diagnosis and ecotoxicological risk assessment of 49 elements in sludge from wastewater treatment plants of Chongqing and Xiamen cities, China - Fidèle Suanon; Qiaoqiao Chi; Xiaoyong Yang; Hongjie Wang; Azhar Rashid; Bahareh Asefi; Daouda Mama; Chang-Ping Yu; Qian Sun (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Mitigation of NOx emission using aromatic and phenolic antioxidant-treated biodiesel blends in a multi-cylinder diesel engine - Ibrahim Khalil Adam; Morgan Heikal; Abdul Rashid Abdul Aziz; Suzana Yusup (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Losing cichlid fish biodiversity: genetic and morphological homogenization of tilapia following colonization by introduced species - Asilatu Shechonge; Benjamin P. Ngatunga; Rashid Tamatamah; Stephanie J. Bradbeer; Jack Harrington; Antonia G. P. Ford; George F. Turner; Martin J. Genner (Conservation Genetics, 2018)

An Updated Taxonomic Inventory of Flora of Srinagar City (Kashmir Himalaya) India, Using Herbarium Reconstruction Approach - Gousia Mehraj; Anzar A. Khuroo; Insha Muzafar; Irfan Rashid; Akhtar H. Malik (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2018)

Seismic hazard and probability assessment of Kashmir valley, northwest Himalaya, India - Rakesh Chandra; Javid Ahmad Dar; Shakil Ahmad Romshoo; Irfan Rashid; Imtiyaz A. Parvez; Sareer Ahmad Mir; Midhat Fayaz (Natural Hazards, 2018)

Photocatalytic degradation of imidacloprid by Ag-ZnO composite - Mahwish Kanwal; Saadia Rashid Tariq; Ghayoor Abbas Chotana (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Diesel engine emission analysis using fuel from diverse emulsification methods - Dhani Avianto Sugeng; Wira Jazair Yahya; Ahmad Muhsin Ithnin; Muhammad Adib Abdul Rashid; Nur Salsabilla Mohd Syahril Amri; Hasannuddin Abd Kadir; Mohd Naim Abdul Halim (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Glutamic acid assisted phyto-management of silver-contaminated soils through sunflower; physiological and biochemical response - Mujahid Farid; Shafaqat Ali; Muhammad Zubair; Rashid Saeed; Muhammad Rizwan; Rasham Sallah-Ud-Din; Ahmad Azam; Rehman Ashraf; Wasim Ashraf (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Effect of gut bacteria on fitness of the Chinese citrus fly, Bactrocera minax (Diptera: Tephritidae) - Muhammad Adnan Rashid; Awawing Anjwengwo Andongma; Yong-Cheng Dong; Xue-Ming Ren; Chang-Ying Niu (Symbiosis, 2018)

Evaluating and implementing social–ecological systems: A comprehensive approach to sustainable fisheries - Robert L. Stephenson; Stacey Paul; Melanie Wiber; Eric Angel; Ashleen J. Benson; Anthony Charles; Omer Chouinard; Marc Clemens; Dan Edwards; Paul Foley; Lindsay Jennings; Owen Jones; et al. (Fish and Fisheries, 2018)
Fisheries sustainability is recognized to have four pillars: ecological, economic, social (including cultural) and institutional (or governance). Although international agreements, and legislation in many jurisdictions, call for implementation of all four pillars of sustainability, the social, economic and institutional aspects (i.e., the “human dimensions”) have not been comprehensively and collectively addressed to date. This study describes a framework for comprehensive fisheries evaluation developed by the Canadian Fisheries Research Network ( CFRN ) that articulates the full spectrum of ecological, economic, social and institutional objectives required under international agreements, together with candidate performance indicators for sustainable fisheries. The CFRN framework is aimed at practical fisheries evaluation and management and has a relatively balanced distribution of elements across the four pillars of sustainability relative to 10 alternative management decision support tools and indicator scorecards, which are heavily focused on ecological and economic aspects. The CFRN framework has five immediate uses: (a) It can serve as a logic frame for defining management objectives; (b) it can be used to define alternate management options to achieve given objectives; (c) it can serve as a tool for comparing management scenarios/options in decision support frameworks; (d) it can be employed to create a report card for comprehensive fisheries management evaluation; and (e) it is a tool for practical implementation of an integrated social–ecological system approach.

Effect of ambient management interventions on the production and physiological performance of lactating Sahiwal cattle during hot dry summer - Mehtab Ahmad; Jalees Ahmed Bhatti; Muhammad Abdullah; Khalid Javed; Mehboob Ali; Ghazanfar Rashid; Rafi Uddin; Ali Hassan Badini; Mudassar Jehan (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2018)

Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of thiomatrine derivatives as potential anticancer agents - Zheng Li; Lichuan Wu; Bin Cai; Mengyang Luo; Mengtian Huang; Haroon Ur Rashid; Yuwen Yang; Jun Jiang; Lisheng Wang (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2018)

Halotolerant plant-growth promoting rhizobacteria modulate gene expression and osmolyte production to improve salinity tolerance and growth in Capsicum annum L. - Nasim Ahmad Yasin; Waheed Akram; Waheed Ullah Khan; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Aqeel Ahmad; Aamir Ali (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Hourly variation of green tide in the Yellow Sea during summer 2015 and 2016 using Geostationary Ocean Color Imager data - Ahmed Harun-Al-Rashid; Chan-Su Yang (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2018)

Identification and validation of genomic regions influencing kernel zinc and iron in maize - Vemuri Hindu; Natalia Palacios-Rojas; Raman Babu; Willy B. Suwarno; Zerka Rashid; Rayalcheruvu Usha; Gajanan R Saykhedkar; Sudha K. Nair (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2018)

Effects of elevated pressure on Pseudanabaena galeata Böcher in varying light and dark environments - Helayaye Damitha Lakmali Abeynayaka; Takashi Asaeda; M. Harun Rashid (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Factors affecting reproductive performance in dromedary camel herds in Saudi Arabia - Ahmed Ali; Derar Derar; Abdulhadi Alsharari; Assaf Alsharari; Rashid Khalil; Tariq I. Almundarij; Yaser Alboti; Fahd Al-Sobayil (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2018)

Numerical Solution and Analysis of Three-Dimensional Transient Darcy Flow - Shahab U. Ansari; Masroor Hussain; Ahmar Rashid; Suleman Mazhar; S. M. Ahmad (Transport in Porous Media, 2018)

Association of GABAA Receptor Gene with Epilepsy Syndromes - Musadiq Ahmad Bhat; Sameer Ahmad Guru; Rashid Mir; Ajaz Ahmad Waza; Mariyam Zuberi; Mamta Pervin Sumi; Shaam Bodeliwala; Vinod Puri; Alpana Saxena (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2018)

Effect of humic and fulvic acid transformation on cadmium availability to wheat cultivars in sewage sludge amended soil - Imran Rashid; Ghulam Murtaza; Zahir Ahmad Zahir; Muhammad Farooq (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

A test of environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon emission and potential of renewable energy to reduce green house gases (GHG) in Malaysia - Abid Rashid Gill; Kuperan K. Viswanathan; Sallahuddin Hassan (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2018)

Decreased hemispheric connectivity and decreased intra- and inter- hemisphere asymmetry of resting state functional network connectivity in schizophrenia - O. Agcaoglu; R. Miller; E. Damaraju; B. Rashid; J. Bustillo; M. S. Cetin; T. G. M. Van Erp; S. McEwen; A. Preda; J. M. Ford; K. O. Lim; D. S. Manoach; et al. (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2018)

Biodiesel production from algae grown on food industry wastewater - Khadija Mureed; Shamsa Kanwal; Azhar Hussain; Shamaila Noureen; Sabir Hussain; Shakeel Ahmad; Maqshoof Ahmad; Rashid Waqas (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2018)

Gene cloning and characterization of recombinant L-Asparaginase from Bacillus subtilis strain R5 - Shahid Mahmood Chohan; Naeem Rashid (Biologia, 2018)

Influence of green grass-based diets on growth and reproductive performance in dairy heifers - M.R. Habib; M.H. Rashid; M.A. Islam; S. Majumder; K.M.S. Islam; S. Ahmed; M.S. Alam; E. Vargas-Bello-Pérez (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2018)

How does transient signaling input affect the spike timing of postsynaptic neuron near the threshold regime: an analytical study - Safura Rashid Shomali; Majid Nili Ahmadabadi; Hideaki Shimazaki; Seyyed Nader Rasuli (Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 2018)

Determination of Appropriate Service Delivery Level for Quantitative Attributes of Household Toilets in Rural Settlements of India from Users’ Perspective - Mohammad Rashid; Debapratim Pandit (Environmental Management, 2018)

A review on EEG-based methods for screening and diagnosing alcohol use disorder - Wajid Mumtaz; Pham Lam Vuong; Aamir Saeed Malik; Rusdi Bin Abd Rashid (Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2018)

Exhaust emission profiling of fatty acid methyl esters and NOx control studies using selective synthetic and natural additives - Saad Afzal; Muhammad Waseem Mumtaz; Umer Rashid; Muhammad Danish; Muhammad Asam Raza; Ahtasham Raza; Hamid Mukhtar; Saud Ibrahim Al-Resayes (Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2018)

Patterns of alien plant diversity in the urban landscapes of global biodiversity hotspots: a case study from the Himalayas - Gousia Mehraj; Anzar A. Khuroo; Salman Qureshi; Insha Muzafar; Cynthia Ross Friedman; Irfan Rashid (Biodiversity and Conservation, 2018)

Mineralogy, Fluid inclusions and stable isotopes study constraints on genesis of sulfide ore mineral, Qaladiza area Qandil Series, Iraqi Kurdistan Region - Tola A. Mirza; Saman Gh. Rashid (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2018)

Rock art provides new evidence on the biogeography of kudu ( Tragelaphus imberbis ), wild dromedary, aurochs ( Bos primigenius ) and African wild ass ( Equus africanus ) in the early and middle Holocene of north‐western Arabia - Maria Guagnin; Ceri Shipton; Sarah el‐Dossary; Moudhy al‐Rashid; Farès Moussa; Mathew Stewart; Florian Ott; Abdullah Alsharekh; Michael D. Petraglia (Journal of Biogeography, 2018)
Aim Our knowledge of the prehistoric distribution of animal species is so far largely dependent on the location of excavated archaeological and palaeontological sites. In the absence of excavated faunal remains, many species that were present in the Levant and North Africa have been assumed to have been absent on the Arabian Peninsula. Here, we explore representations of four species that were identifiable in the rock art, but had not previously been reported in north‐western Arabia. Location Jubbah and Shuwaymis UNESCO world heritage rock art sites in Ha'il province, north‐western Saudi Arabia. Methods In total, the rock art panels surveyed and recorded in Jubbah and Shuwaymis contain 6,618 individual animal depictions. Species were identified based on diagnostic features of the anatomy. The resulting dataset was then compared to the faunal spectrum reported in the (archaeo)zoological literature. Results The rock art dataset provides evidence that the distributions of lesser kudu ( Tragelaphus imberbis ), wild camel and African wild ass ( Equus africanus ) extended into the north‐west of Arabia and that the engravers may have had knowledge of aurochs ( Bos primigenius ). Main conclusions The presence of previously undocumented mammal species in Arabia provides new information regarding their distribution, as well as the types of habitat and vegetation that were available in prehistoric landscapes. Moreover, the presence of kudu on the Arabian Peninsula indicates that the identification of palaeo‐distributions based exclusively on faunal remains may miss key species in the Afro‐Eurasian faunal exchange.

Optimizing Irrigation Deficit of Multipurpose Cascade Reservoirs - Muhammad Usman Rashid; Abid Latif; Muhammad Azmat (Water Resources Management, 2018)

Spatial patterns of pollutants in water of metropolitan drain in Lahore, Pakistan, using multivariate statistical techniques - Shumaila Majeed; Sajid Rashid; Abdul Qadir; Colin Mackay; Faisal Hayat (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2018)

Reductive transformation of profenofos with nanoscale Fe/Ni particles - Saadia Rashid Tariq; Laiba Nisar (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2018)

Molecular characterization of cytosolic cysteine synthase in Mimosa pudica - Md. Harun-Ur- Rashid; Hironori Iwasaki; Shigeki Oogai; Masakazu Fukuta; Shahanaz Parveen; Md. Amzad Hossain; Toyoaki Anai; Hirosuke Oku (Journal of Plant Research, 2018)

Spatio-temporal variation of land surface temperature and temperature lapse rate over mountainous Kashmir Himalaya - Shakil Ahmad Romshoo; Mohammd Rafiq; Irfan Rashid (Journal of Mountain Science, 2018)

Enhancement of gene expression in Escherichia coli and characterization of highly stable ATP-dependent glucokinase from Pyrobaculum calidifontis - Tahira Bibi; Musadiq Ali; Naeem Rashid; Majida Atta Muhammad; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2018)

Mesenchymal Stromal Cells from the Maternal Segment of Human Umbilical Cord is Ideal for Bone Regeneration in Allogenic Setting - Jezamine Lim; Zainul Rashid Mohamad Razi; Jia Xian Law; Azmawati Mohammed Nawi; Ruszymah Binti Haji Idrus; Tan Geok Chin; Muaatamarulain Mustangin; Min Hwei Ng (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2018)

Imperative roles of halotolerant plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria and kinetin in improving salt tolerance and growth of black gram (Phaseolus mungo) - Nasim Ahmad Yasin; Waheed Ullah Khan; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Aamir Ali; Aqeel Ahmad; Waheed Akram (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Toxicity of cypermethrin on the embryo and larvae of Gangetic mystus, Mystus cavasius - Md. Haider Ali; Kizar Ahmed Sumon; Marin Sultana; Harunur Rashid (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Lead Concentrations in Soils and Some Wild Plant Species Along Two Busy Roads in Pakistan - Noreen Khalid; Mumtaz Hussain; Hillary S. Young; Muhammad Ashraf; Mansoor Hameed; Rashid Ahmad (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2018)

The probability distributions and fractal dimension of sunspot cycles associated with ENSO phenomena - Asma Zaffar; Shaheen Abbas; Muhammad Rashid Kamal Ansari (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2018)

Comparative nutritional and mycochemical contents, biological activities and LC/MS screening of tuber from new recipe cultivation technique with wild type tuber of tiger’s milk mushroom of species Lignosus rhinocerus - Nor Azreen Mohd Jamil; Noraswati Mohd Nor Rashid; Mohamad Hasril Abd Hamid; Norasfaliza Rahmad; Jameel R. Al-Obaidi (World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2018)

Pcal_0632, a phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from Pyrobaculum calidifontis - Iram Aziz; Naeem Rashid; Raza Ashraf; Masood Ahmed Siddiqui; Tadayuki Imanaka; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2018)

Adaptation strategies to climate change in marine systems - Dana D. Miller; Yoshitaka Ota; Ussif Rashid Sumaila; Andrés M. Cisneros‐Montemayor; William W. L. Cheung (Global Change Biology, 2018)
The world's oceans are highly impacted by climate change and other human pressures, with significant implications for marine ecosystems and the livelihoods that they support. Adaptation for both natural and human systems is increasingly important as a coping strategy due to the rate and scale of ongoing and potential future change. Here, we conduct a review of literature concerning specific case studies of adaptation in marine systems, and discuss associated characteristics and influencing factors, including drivers, strategy, timeline, costs, and limitations. We found ample evidence in the literature that shows that marine species are adapting to climate change through shifting distributions and timing of biological events, while evidence for adaptation through evolutionary processes is limited. For human systems, existing studies focus on frameworks and principles of adaptation planning, but examples of implemented adaptation actions and evaluation of outcomes are scarce. These findings highlight potentially useful strategies given specific social–ecological contexts, as well as key barriers and specific information gaps requiring further research and actions.

Microbial community and ovine host response varies with early and late stages of Haemonchus contortus infection - Saeed El-Ashram; Ibrahim Al Nasr; Fathi Abouhajer; Maged El-Kemary; Guangping Huang; Güngör Dinçel; Rashid Mehmood; Min Hu; Xun Suo (Veterinary Research Communications, 2017)

Multidrug Resistant Listeria Species from Milk and Milk Products - Nitasha Sambyal; M. Rashid; S. K. Kotwal; Majueeb U. Rehman (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2017)

Sustainable Improvement of Tropical Residual Soil Using an Environmentally Friendly Additive - Ahmad Safuan A. Rashid; Nima Latifi; Christopher L. Meehan; Kalehiwot N. Manahiloh (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2017)

Towards the effective plastic waste management in Bangladesh: a review - Monjur Mourshed; Mahadi Hasan Masud; Fazlur Rashid; Mohammad Uzzal Hossain Joardder (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Occurrence, ecological risk assessment, and spatio-temporal variation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in water and sediments along River Ravi and its northern tributaries, Pakistan - Mujtaba Baqar; Yumna Sadef; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Adeel Mahmood; Abdul Qadir; Iqra Aslam; Jun Li; Gan Zhang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Citizen perception on environmental responsibility of the corporate sector in rural areas - B. S. Choudri; Mahad Baawain; Khalifa Al-Zeidi; Hamood Al-Nofli; Rashid Al-Busaidi; Khalifa Al-Fazari (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2017)

Accountability Studies on Air Pollution and Health: the HEI Experience - Hanna Boogaard; Annemoon M. van Erp; Katherine D. Walker; Rashid Shaikh (Current Environmental Health Reports, 2017)

Biology of Amaranths - Rezwana Assad; Zafar A. Reshi; Snober Jan; Irfan Rashid (The Botanical Review, 2017)

Stratigraphic correlation and paleoenvironmental analysis of the hydrocarbon-bearing Early Miocene Euphrates and Jeribe formations in the Zagros folded-thrust belt - D. Hussein; R. Collier; J. A. Lawrence; F. Rashid; P. W. J. Glover; P. Lorinczi; D. H. Baban (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2017)

Rice bran nutraceutics: A comprehensive review - Muhammad Sohail; Allah Rakha; Masood Sadiq Butt; Muhammad Jawad Iqbal; Summer Rashid (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2017)

Ex-vessel Fish Price Database: Disaggregating Prices for Low-Priced Species from Reduction Fisheries - Travis C. Tai; Tim Cashion; Vicky W. Y. Lam; Wilf Swartz; U. Rashid Sumaila (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017)

An extended linear scaling method for downscaling temperature and its implication in the Jhelum River basin, Pakistan, and India, using CMIP5 GCMs - Rashid Mahmood; Shaofeng JIA (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2017)

Does trade openness reduce a domestic fisheries catch? - Keita Abe; Gakushi Ishimura; Tetsuya Tsurumi; Shunsuke Managi; Ussif Rashid Sumaila (Fisheries Science, 2017)

Erratum to: Sub-chronic exposure to low concentration of dibutyl phthalate affects anthropometric parameters and markers of obesity in rats - Khalid Abdul Majeed; Habib ur Rehman; Muhammad Shahbaz Yousaf; Hafsa Zaneb; Imtiaz Rabbani; Sajid Khan Tahir; Muhammad Afzal Rashid (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Sub-chronic exposure to low concentration of dibutyl phthalate affects anthropometric parameters and markers of obesity in rats - Khalid Abdul Majeed; Habib ur Rehman; Muhammad Shahbaz Yousaf; Hafsa Zaneb; Imtiaz Rabbani; Sajid Khan Tahir; Muhammad Afzal Rashid (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Pcal_1311, an alcohol dehydrogenase homologue from Pyrobaculum calidifontis, displays NADH-dependent high aldehyde reductase activity - Raza Ashraf; Naeem Rashid; Tamotsu Kanai; Tadayuki Imanaka; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2017)

Integrated multi-parameter approach for delineating groundwater potential zones in a crystalline aquifer of southern India - Mehnaz Rashid; Min-Hui Lo; Shakeel Ahmed (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2017)

Cloning, antibody production, expression and cellular localization of universal stress protein gene (USP1-GFP) in transgenic cotton - Sameera Hassan; Tahir Rehman Samiullah; Mahmood ur Rahman Ansari; Bushra Rashid; Tayyab Husnain (Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2017)

Simulation of extreme rainfall and projection of future changes using the GLIMCLIM model - Md. Mamunur Rashid; Simon Beecham; Rezaul Kabir Chowdhury (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2017)

Geochemistry and genesis of sulphide ore deposits in Sharosh Village, Qandil Series, Kurdistan Region, NE Iraq - Tola A. Mirza; Stavros P. Kalaitzidis; Sarkhel H. Mohammed; Saman Gh. Rashid; Xenia Petrou (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2017)

Potential of Biochar‐Amended Soil to Enhance Crop Productivity under Deficit Irrigation - Emmanuel Kangoma; Mohamed M. Blango; Augustine B. Rashid‐Noah; Joseph Sherman‐Kamara; Juana P. Moiwo; Alie Kamara (Irrigation and Drainage, 2017)
With the world population hitting 8 billion and the global climate becoming more erratic with pronounced droughts, floods, water shortages and storage depletions, the need for optimal soil and water conditions for high crop productivity and food security has become ever more urgent. There is a growing effort towards enhancing water storage in the root‐zone soil layer (as a rainwater‐harvesting strategy) to increase crop productivity. This study analysed the effects of biochar and deficit irrigation on rice productivity under greenhouse conditions. Grain yield, plant height, tiller number and biomass yield under 0% biochar (B 1 ) were respectively 13.6, 6.4, 27.4 and 3.0% higher for moderate deficit irrigation (I 2 ) than for flood irrigation (I 1 ). Also in terms of tiller number, I 2 performed better than I 1 by 45.8 and 69.2% under B 2 (4% biochar) and B 4 (16% biochar), respectively. While for biochar the highest crop productivity was under B 2 , this changed vastly under the combined effects of irrigation and biochar. This suggested that crop productivity was as much dependent on irrigation as on biochar treatment. The variations in productivity could provide farmers with the choice of treatments or treatment combinations that are best suitable for their local agro‐edaphic, hydroclimatic and socio‐economic conditions. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Climate change–contaminant interactions in marine food webs: Toward a conceptual framework - Juan José Alava; William W. L. Cheung; Peter S. Ross; U. Rashid Sumaila (Global Change Biology, 2017)
Climate change is reshaping the way in which contaminants move through the global environment, in large part by changing the chemistry of the oceans and affecting the physiology, health, and feeding ecology of marine biota. Climate change‐associated impacts on structure and function of marine food webs, with consequent changes in contaminant transport, fate, and effects, are likely to have significant repercussions to those human populations that rely on fisheries resources for food, recreation, or culture. Published studies on climate change–contaminant interactions with a focus on food web bioaccumulation were systematically reviewed to explore how climate change and ocean acidification may impact contaminant levels in marine food webs. We propose here a conceptual framework to illustrate the impacts of climate change on contaminant accumulation in marine food webs, as well as the downstream consequences for ecosystem goods and services. The potential impacts on social and economic security for coastal communities that depend on fisheries for food are discussed. Climate change–contaminant interactions may alter the bioaccumulation of two priority contaminant classes: the fat‐soluble persistent organic pollutants ( POP s), such as polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCB s), as well as the protein‐binding methylmercury (MeHg). These interactions include phenomena deemed to be either climate change dominant (i.e., climate change leads to an increase in contaminant exposure) or contaminant dominant (i.e., contamination leads to an increase in climate change susceptibility). We illustrate the pathways of climate change–contaminant interactions using case studies in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean. The important role of ecological and food web modeling to inform decision‐making in managing ecological and human health risks of chemical pollutants contamination under climate change is also highlighted. Finally, we identify the need to develop integrated policies that manage the ecological and socioeconomic risk of greenhouse gases and marine pollutants.

Iodine biofortification of wheat, rice and maize through fertilizer strategy - I. Cakmak; C. Prom-u-thai; L. R. G. Guilherme; A. Rashid; K. H. Hora; A. Yazici; E. Savasli; M. Kalayci; Y. Tutus; P. Phuphong; M. Rizwan; F. A. D. Martins; et al. (Plant and Soil, 2017)

Microwave irradiation and citric acid assisted seed germination and phytoextraction of nickel (Ni) by Brassica napus L.: morpho-physiological and biochemical alterations under Ni stress - Mujahid Farid; Shafaqat Ali; Muhammad Rizwan; Rashid Saeed; Hafiz Muhammad Tauqeer; Rasham Sallah-Ud-Din; Ahmed Azam; Nighat Raza (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Mechanisms of improved rainfall simulation over the Maritime Continent due to increased horizontal resolution in an AGCM - Harun A. Rashid; Anthony C. Hirst (Climate Dynamics, 2017)

Liver Histophysiological Alterations in Pelagic and Benthic Fish as Biomarkers for Marine Environmental Assessment - Negin Salamat; Rashid Alijani Ardeshir; Abdolali Movahedinia; Sara Rastgar (International Journal of Environmental Research, 2017)

The Deep Mixing Method: Bearing Capacity Studies - Ahmad Safuan A Rashid; Aliff Ridzuan Bunawan; Khairun Nissa Mat Said (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2017)

Erratum to: Dye removal of AR27 with enhanced degradation and power generation in a microbial fuel cell using bioanode of treated clinoptilolite-modified graphite felt - Seyedeh Nazanin Kardi; Norahim Ibrahim; Ghasem Najafpour Darzi; Noor Aini Abdul Rashid; José Villaseñor (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Distribution of heavy metals around the Barakah nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates - Mouza Rashid Al Rashdi; Sulaiman Alaabed; Mohamed El Tokhi; Fares M. Howari; Walid El Mowafi; Alya A. Arabi (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Currently used organophosphate and brominated flame retardants in the environment of China and other developing countries (2000–2016) - Nadeem Ali; Khurram Shahzad; Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid; Heqing Shen; Iqbal Mohammad Ibrahim Ismail; Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah Eqani (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Dye removal of AR27 with enhanced degradation and power generation in a microbial fuel cell using bioanode of treated clinoptilolite-modified graphite felt - Seyedeh Nazanin Kardi; Norahim Ibrahim; Ghasem Najafpour Darzi; Noor Aini Abdul Rashid; José Villaseñor (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Determination of appropriate service quality attributes for household toilets in rural settlements of India based on user perception - Mohammad Rashid; Debapratim Pandit (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2017)

Association of IL-1β, IL-1Ra and FABP1 gene polymorphisms with the metabolic features of polycystic ovary syndrome - Nadia Rashid; Aruna Nigam; Pikee Saxena; S. K. Jain; Saima Wajid (Inflammation Research, 2017)

Erratum to: Petrol filling workers as biomonitor of PAH exposure and functional health capacity in resource-limited settings of city Rawalpindi, Pakistan - Audil Rashid; Shu Tao; Ikhtiar Uddin; Atif Kamal (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Petrol filling workers as biomonitor of PAH exposure and functional health capacity in resource-limited settings of city Rawalpindi, Pakistan - Audil Rashid; Shu Tao; Ikhtiar Uddin; Atif Kamal (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Citric acid enhanced the antioxidant defense system and chromium uptake by Lemna minor L. grown in hydroponics under Cr stress - Rasham Sallah-Ud-Din; Mujahid Farid; Rashid Saeed; Shafaqat Ali; Muhammad Rizwan; Hafiz Muhammad Tauqeer; Syed Asad Hussain Bukhari (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Phyto-management of Cr-contaminated soils by sunflower hybrids: physiological and biochemical response and metal extractability under Cr stress - Mujahid Farid; Shafaqat Ali; Nudrat Aisha Akram; Muhammad Rizwan; Farhat Abbas; Syed Asad Hussain Bukhari; Rashid Saeed (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Farmers’ attitude toward treated sludge use in the villages of West Bank, Palestine - Md. M. Rashid; Mary G. Kattou’a; Issam A. Al-Khatib; Chikashi Sato (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2017)

Identification of Peptide Leads to Inhibit Hepatitis C Virus: Inhibitory Effect of Plectasin Peptide Against Hepatitis C Serine Protease - Ammar Y. Abdulrahman; Hussin A. Rothan; Nurshamimi Nor Rashid; See Khai Lim; Wajihah Sakhor; Kah Ching Tee; Teow Chong Teoh; Noorsaadah A. Rahman; Rohana Yusof (International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, 2017)

Preparation and in-vitro/in-vivo characterization of trans-resveratrol nanocrystals for oral administration - Sandeep K. Singh; Vishal Makadia; Shweta Sharma; Mamunur Rashid; Sudhir Shahi; Prabhat R. Mishra; Mohammed Wahajuddin; Jiaur R Gayen (Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2017)

Potential of Oecophylla longinoda Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in managing major insect pests in organic cashew production systems - Nassor Rashid Abdulla; Gration Mutashoberwa Rwegasira; Karl-Martin Vagn Jensen; Maulid Walad Mwatawala; Joachim Offenberg (Organic Agriculture, 2017)

Scene classification for aerial images based on CNN using sparse coding technique - Abdul Qayyum; Aamir Saeed Malik; Naufal M Saad; Mahboob Iqbal; Mohd Faris Abdullah; Waqas Rasheed; Tuan AB Rashid Abdullah; Mohd Yaqoob Bin Jafaar (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2017)

Identification of a novel copper-activated and halide-tolerant laccase in Geobacillus thermopakistaniensis - Saadia Basheer; Naeem Rashid; Raza Ashraf; Muhammad Sohail Akram; Masood Ahmed Siddiqui; Tadayuki Imanaka; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2017)

Pcal_0111, a highly thermostable bifunctional fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase/phosphatase from Pyrobaculum calidifontis - Iram Aziz; Naeem Rashid; Raza Ashraf; Qamar Bashir; Tadayuki Imanaka; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2017)

Global patterns in lake ecosystem responses to warming based on the temperature dependence of metabolism - Benjamin M. Kraemer; Sudeep Chandra; Anthony I. Dell; Margaret Dix; Esko Kuusisto; David M. Livingstone; S. Geoffrey Schladow; Eugene Silow; Lewis M. Sitoki; Rashid Tamatamah; Peter B. McIntyre (Global Change Biology, 2017)
Climate warming is expected to have large effects on ecosystems in part due to the temperature dependence of metabolism. The responses of metabolic rates to climate warming may be greatest in the tropics and at low elevations because mean temperatures are warmer there and metabolic rates respond exponentially to temperature (with exponents >1). However, if warming rates are sufficiently fast in higher latitude/elevation lakes, metabolic rate responses to warming may still be greater there even though metabolic rates respond exponentially to temperature. Thus, a wide range of global patterns in the magnitude of metabolic rate responses to warming could emerge depending on global patterns of temperature and warming rates. Here we use the Boltzmann–Arrhenius equation, published estimates of activation energy, and time series of temperature from 271 lakes to estimate long‐term (1970–2010) changes in 64 metabolic processes in lakes. The estimated responses of metabolic processes to warming were usually greatest in tropical/low‐elevation lakes even though surface temperatures in higher latitude/elevation lakes are warming faster. However, when the thermal sensitivity of a metabolic process is especially weak, higher latitude/elevation lakes had larger responses to warming in parallel with warming rates. Our results show that the sensitivity of a given response to temperature (as described by its activation energy) provides a simple heuristic for predicting whether tropical/low‐elevation lakes will have larger or smaller metabolic responses to warming than higher latitude/elevation lakes. Overall, we conclude that the direct metabolic consequences of lake warming are likely to be felt most strongly at low latitudes and low elevations where metabolism‐linked ecosystem services may be most affected.

Management of Nymphoides peltatum using water level fluctuations in freshwater lakes of Kashmir Himalaya - Shabir A. Khanday; A. R. Yousuf; Zafar A. Reshi; Irfan Rashid; Arshid Jehangir; Shakil Ahmad Romshoo (Limnology, 2017)

An EEG-based machine learning method to screen alcohol use disorder - Wajid Mumtaz; Pham Lam Vuong; Likun Xia; Aamir Saeed Malik; Rusdi Bin Abd Rashid (Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2017)

An assessment of pan-sharpening algorithms for mapping mangrove ecosystems: a hybrid approach - Naeem Shahzad; Sajid Rashid Ahmad; Salman Ashraf (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2017)

Contributions by Women to Fisheries Economies: Insights from Five Maritime Countries - Sarah Harper; Charlotte Grubb; Margot Stiles; Ussif Rashid Sumaila (Coastal Management, 2017)

Scenarios for investigating the future of Canada’s oceans and marine fisheries under environmental and socioeconomic change - Louise S. L. Teh; William W. L. Cheung; U. Rashid Sumaila (Regional Environmental Change, 2017)

Pathogenic diversity of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae isolates collected from Punjab Province of Pakistan - Hafiz Muhammad Imran Arshad; Kamran Saleem; Junaid Ahmed Khan; Muhammad Rashid; Muhammad Atiq; Syed Sarwar Alam; Shahbaz Talib Sahi (European Journal of Plant Pathology, 2017)

Influence of UV-A radiation on oxidative stress and antioxidant enzymes in Mythimna separata (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) - Arif Ali; Muhammad Adnan Rashid; Qiu Ying Huang; Chao-Liang Lei (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Hydrochemical characterization and pollution assessment of groundwater in Jammu Siwaliks, India - Shakil A. Romshoo; Reyaz Ahmad Dar; Khalid Omar Murtaza; Irfan Rashid; Farooq A. Dar (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2017)

A new irregular monoterpene acetate along with eight known compounds with antifungal potential from the aerial parts of Artemisia incisa Pamp (Asteraceae) - Mamoon Ur Rashid; Muhammad Alamzeb; Saqib Ali; Zafar Ali Shah; Ishrat Naz; Ashfaq Ahmad Khan; Dima Semaan; Mohammad Rafiullah Khan (Natural Product Research, 2017)

Enhancement of the protective efficacy of a ROP18 vaccine against chronic toxoplasmosis by nasal route - Imran Rashid; Nathalie Moiré; Bruno Héraut; Isabelle Dimier-Poisson; Marie-Noëlle Mévélec (Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 2017)

Photodegradation of bifenthrin and deltamethrin—effect of copper amendment and solvent system - Saadia Rashid Tariq; Dildar Ahmed; Amna Farooq; Sonia Rasheed; Mubarkah Mansoor (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2017)

Assessing the influence of watershed characteristics on soil erosion susceptibility of Jhelum basin in Kashmir Himalayas - Muzamil Ahmad Rather; J Satish Kumar; Majid Farooq; Humayan Rashid (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2017)

What is at stake? Status and threats to South China Sea marine fisheries - Louise S. L. Teh; Allison Witter; William W. L. Cheung; U. Rashid Sumaila; Xueying Yin (Ambio, 2017)

Prospective study of avian influenza H9 infection in commercial poultry farms of Punjab Province and Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan - Mamoona Chaudhry; Maqbool Ahmad; Hamad Bin Rashid; Bakhat Sultan; Haroon Rashid Chaudhry; Aayesha Riaz; Muhammad Shabir Shaheen (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2017)

Effects of Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium on Host-Choice Behavior of Brown Planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) on Rice Cultivar - Md Mamunur Rashid; Mahbuba Jahan; Khandakar Shariful Islam (Journal of Insect Behavior, 2017)

Zinc Content in Cord Blood Is Associated with Maternal Age and Parity - Ayman Lee Youssof; Noor Lide Abu Kassim; Siti Aishah Rashid; Marc De Ley; Mohammad Tariqur Rahman (Biological Trace Element Research, 2017)